PVT Frank Harding Troxler

courtesy of Dan Whitehead

PVT Frank Harding Troxler was born in Rockingham County, North Carolina on 10 Oct 1920. He was the only child of Lewis Franklin and Mary Victoria (Dickey) Troxler. His father was a well-to-do farmer near Washington, North Carolina on his own land valued at $10,000 in 1930 although he latter went to work in one of the local textile mills earning $1600 in 1939 in that work. Frank married Rena Frances Walker in 1938. They had a son in 1940 and a daughter in 1941. Frank was working for White Tower Systems (an early fast food chain) in Detroit, Michigan when he registered for the draft in February 1942. Frank divorced Rena in November 1943. 

Frank was drafted, probably about the time of his divorce. After completing his basic military training he was sent to England and from there to the replacement depot. PVT Troxler was transferred from the replacement depot to F Company 116th Infantry on 15 Jul 1944. Serving as a rifleman, he fought in the effort to liberate Vire and was wounded on 7 Aug 1944. Evacuated to a field hospital he died there of his wound(s) on 8 Aug 1944. 

PVT Troxler was repatriated in 1949 and re-interred in the Raleigh National Cemetery in Raleigh, North Carolina.